Sabarimala will now join the list of temples open to women, but there are other Hindu temples that keep their gates shut to them. Moreover, there are possibly even more shrines of Muslim saints (tombs called dargahs) that traditionally disallow women from entering the inner sanctum. In 2016, the Supreme Court similarly forced the famous Haji Ali Dargah to open its doors to women, but the same did not apply to other Islamic shrines.

The Travancore Devaswom Board, which is managing the affairs of Sabarimala, took a U-turn in the Supreme Court on Wednesday by supporting its 28 September verdict which had allowed women of all age groups to enter the shrine

On 2 January, after two women Kanaka Durga and Bindu Ammini completed a 'darshan', and Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan confirmed this, the temple had been shut for an hour around 10.30 am for "purification" rituals

Protesters at Sabarmiala forced 11 women from the previously banned age group who had reached Pamba in the wee hours of the morning on Sunday to turn back even as police detained some of the protestors.

A day after the Pathanamthitta Judicial First Class Magistrate court remanded him in 14-day judicial custody, senior Kerala Bharatiya Janata Party leader K Surendran got bail from the Kerala High Court in a case connected to an attack on a woman.

As each layer is unpeeled of the multi-dimensional mess in which the Central Bureau of Investigation is plunged, the closer we come to the grim reality that the system of national governance is creaking: with the politicians calculatedly declining to face harsh facts. Highly publicised sloganeering, vicious accusations “across the aisle” ~ with scant regard …